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u/HyperApples · 3 pointsr/japanlife

u/GravityTxT, geekguy has the best advice on this thread. "will, fortitude, and action".

I never earned much money and retired at 35 to travel full-time. It's not about how much you earn, but how much you spend.

If all my investments magically disappeared and I had to start again, I would get a job in rural Japan, doing something I like, where housing is essentially free, and there's a labor shortage. That's an immediate strong economic position from which to rebuild capital.

Do what you love, avoid lifestyle inflation, enjoy life.

And as a former software industry worker, I say the industry is awful for quality of living, and emotional fulfillment. IT, too.

You need to get concrete on what you want out of life. Read Your Money or your Life by Dominguez/Robin.

If you're a numbers guy read http://earlyretirementextreme.com/, if you're a heart guy read https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/. Even if you want to work to 75, these are great resources for living a examined life, rather than just floating along.

u/aryllies · 6 pointsr/japanlife

I highly recommend reading "The Bogleheads" as a great introduction to investing.

The Bogleheads are basically a group of people following the investment principles of late Jack Bogle, founder of one of the most successful investment companies, Vanguard.

Have fun.

https://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Guide-Investing-Taylor-Larimore/dp/0470067365

There's also a remarkable forum/ community over there:

https://www.bogleheads.org

u/nandemo · 3 pointsr/japanlife

I should write a guide about this... the outline is:

0. Don't be American.

  1. Get educated: I recommend this book plus a good amount of reading on the net.
  2. Set your goals (whether you're going to spend some of your invested funds in the short term vs just retirement fund, when do you want to retire, acceptable risk, etc). 2a. Determine your asset allocation from that (mainly % of stocks vs. % of bonds). 2b. Calculate how much you need to save per month.
  3. Get an account at a Japanese online brokerage, and select the mutual funds that correspond to the previous step.
  4. Transfer a % of your income every month to that account and then into the funds.
u/Akya · 2 pointsr/japanlife

I've actually seen a lot of vending machines are now ¥160 for a 500ml of Cocacola (which seemed to happen after the tax increase). My local Max Value supermarket sells Cocacola for ¥84.

Amazon.co.jp lists 24x500ml bottles at ¥97 each. At least the supermarket is cheaper, faster and has it chilled...

Also since tap water tasted weird a few weeks ago before the wet season, I bought a box of 6x2L bottles of water for about ¥400. Mmm tenzensui...

And since I get my Amazon orders delivered to the nearest conbini since I'm never home for their next day delivery and can't find time to get the delivery anyway, I actually end up having to go further than the super market to get a super heavy box of drinks...

u/PeanutButterChicken · 2 pointsr/japanlife

The Tab A uses a shit processor and will be shitty for anything other that video. Web browsing will be slow. The Tab S series is much nicer.... I have the older Tab S 8.4 and use it occasionally for browsing, but the AMOLED screen is amazing for video. They aren't sold in Japan anymore though.


The Tab S5e is great though (https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Wifi-Tablet-Silver/dp/B07Q5VPXG4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=tab+s6&qid=1565750610&s=gateway&sr=8-1)

Check out Flossy Carter's review of it on YouTube.

u/stonecoldsalsa · 1 pointr/japanlife

This book is really good for pronunciation, teaching you how to move your specific mouth-parts:

https://www.amazon.com/Pronounce-Perfectly-Japanese-Charles-Inouye/dp/0812080351

It's old and cassette-only, but hopefully you can find an MP3 online ...

From memory the book has lots of useful diagrams too.

u/Ark42 · 3 pointsr/japanlife

RTK + Anki are amazing. My Kanji recognition is significantly better than my speaking or listening now.

u/razorbeamz · 1 pointr/japanlife

What is the best source for English language books?

I'm looking for this book which is significantly cheaper on US Amazon (about half the price even with shipping), but if I'm going to have to wait that long for shipping from the US then I might as well see if there's anywhere else in Japan that I can get it faster.

u/tokyohoon · 3 pointsr/japanlife

Twinbird makes pretty decent quality stuff.

Whatever you get, I recommend you get a simple on-off type, not a digital one. Then you have the option of making a sous-vide controller later.

u/randomguyguy · 1 pointr/japanlife

Dear god that link.

Why not try it like this?

u/ITS_A_GUNDAAAM · 1 pointr/japanlife

This was one of the textbooks I used in my classical Japanese class (the other one is the reader with the actual texts, the blue one, which is better to start reading after you finish the red one) and was invaluable in explaining the grammar, its meaning, and providing examples of its use. There are simple tables and graphs out there that just give the info to you (our class was furious when we found that out lol) but it's much better to study it.

u/MR_HIROSHI · 1 pointr/japanlife

This is book of expert of japan crime people ”yakuza”

https://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Vice-American-Reporter-Police/dp/0307475298?ie=UTF8&ref_=asap_bc

u/dokool · 4 pointsr/japanlife

I used to recommend a book called Culture Shock! Japan (actually it was Tokyo but I suppose it's mostly the same concepts); but I haven't read it in several years. It covers all the basics for expats moving to Japan, but as a JET your situation may vary.

u/Chiafriend12 · 1 pointr/japanlife

I use ブライト detergent. Lately my clothes haven't been coming out of the washing machine smelling fresh at all. This week some of my newly washed and dried clothes even still smelled despite being clean. Is this a bad detergent or is there maybe something wrong with my washing machine? It's old I can tell you that much but I'm not in a situation to buy a new one in the foreseeable future

u/NeedSomeMilk · 1 pointr/japanlife

Sorry, I should have clarified. I was talking about 500mL can.

Edit: 500mL PET bottle for 85 yen!

Weird, I though cans would be less expensive.